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741. Harley MS 893

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 893
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35r: An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families, blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 36v: Notes concerning the creations of nobility under James I, dated to 1616, 1620, 1622 and 1627.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

742. Harley MS 894

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 894
Title:
Collection of tracts on heraldic matters
Scope & Content:
Several tracts written in different hands, including lists of peers created by James I, the Queen’s procession to St Paul’s 1588, two alphabets of arms in blazon, and an account of the nobility to 1572. Contents: f. 1: Peers of England created in the first seven years of King James I’s reign...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

743. Harley MS 895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 895
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of names, entitled: ‘Table to this Booke of the Armes of the Barons of England from Kinge William the Conquerour’; added in the 17th century. ff. 4r-24v: The arms of English nobility from William the Conqueror to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I, tricked. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

744. Harley MS 896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 896
Title:
The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Names and Armes of the Conquerers; The Names and Armes of all the noble men since the Conqueste of Englande and by whome they weare created
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A memorandum ‘that Thirde of March 1597 I Edward Stanhope Esquire have receyved backe againe of John Manwood the booke called Secretum domini which I lente him as appreth by a note of [unidentified signature]’. f. 1v: A tract on ‘The Fyve Conquestes of this Land with the Name...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

745. Harley MS 897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 897
Title:
English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names. ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

746. Harley MS 898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 898
Title:
Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589-1593
Extent:
1 volume

747. Harley MS 899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 899
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-34r: An Alphabet of Arms of English nobility and gentry, blazoned.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

748. Harley MS 900

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 900
Title:
Legal commentaries compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn
Scope & Content:
Two apparently unpublished text books for law students and others compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn. ff. 1-65: Legal writings, commentaries on Anthony Fitzherbert’s treatise on English law, New Natura Brevium (1534). Title page: ‘The first parte of the Commentaries upon Mr FitzHarbert h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1647
Extent:

1 volume

749. Harley MS 902

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 902
Title:
Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit; compilation of historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit. ff. 12r-12v: 'Le serment de Feaulte qe les prelatz doibvent faire au Roy'. ff. 12v-13r: 'Des pairs de France'. f. 13v: Notes relative to Peter Abelard. ff. 13v-46r: Of the posterity of Mrs Rawson. ff. 46r-212v: a compilation of various ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

750. Harley MS 903

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 903
Title:
Cartulary of St Martin Vintry, London
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Pen trials. f. 2r–v: Fragment of a roll (?), probably added on the creation of the volume, with an inscription dated 25 March 1430. ff. 1r–18r: Cartulary of miscellaneous deeds from the time of Edward I to Henry VI, headed ‘De cartis munimentis at aliis euidenciis spectantibus terris et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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